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Jan Philip Schinhan, composer, conductor, musician and musicologist, was born in Vienna,
Austria, in 1887. He was head of the organ department at the San Fransisco Conservatory
in the 1920s and early 1930s, and a member of the faculty of the Music Dept., University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1935-1958. Musical compositions, biographical material, correspondence, lyric materials, music
workbooks, and other items documenting Schinhan's life. Materials include more than
100 songs written or arranged by Schinhan; words and melodies of folk songs collected
by Schinhan and used by him in editing volumes of "The Frank C. Brown Collection of N.C. Folklore" (1957, 1962); and material relating to composer Joseph Carl Uibellein (Carl Stein),
his maternal grandfather. Of the songs written by Schinhan, some have English lyrics
and some have German lyrics.
Included in the collection is "Songs of Jan Philip Schinhan," performed in 1999 by Grace Johnson, soprano, and Andrew Mock, piano, recorded by
Stan Gilliam.

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[Identification of item], in the Jan Philip Schinhan papers #4454, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Philip C. Schinhan of Chapel Hill, N.C., in July 1986. Volumes 17-28
received from the Music Library in April 1967. CD received from Stan Gilliam of Oak
Ridge, N.C., in February 2000 (Acc. 98572).

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1913 Came to the United States as an opera conductor and remained to become head of
the organ department at the San Francisco Conservatory where he taught for nine years.
He was also organ soloist with the San Francisco Symphony.

1933-1934 Returned to Vienna, studied for a year, and received his Ph.D. from the
University of Vienna.

1935 Joined the University of North Carolina music faculty and taught organ, piano,
composition, and graduate courses in folk music until his retirement in 1958.

1958 Retired as a full professor from UNC.

1975 Died March 26th in North Carolina Memorial Hospital following a long period of
declining health.

Musical compositions, biographical material, correspondence, lyric materials, music
workbooks, and other items documenting Schinhan's life. Materials include more than
100 songs written or arranged by Schinhan; words and melodies of folk songs collected
by Schinhan and used by him in editing volumes of "The Frank C. Brown Collection of N.C. Folklore" (1957, 1962); and material relating to composer Joseph Carl Uibellein (Carl Stein),
his maternal grandfather. Of the songs written by Schinhan, some have English lyrics
and some have German lyrics.
Included in the collection is "Songs of Jan Philip Schinhan," performed in 1999 by Grace Johnson, soprano, and Andrew Mock, piano, recorded by
Stan Gilliam.

Drafts, working copies, and printed copies of music arranged or written by Jan Philip
Schinhan. Works with English lyrics, arranged alphabetically, appear first; they are
followed by musical pieces with lyrics written in German. Also included is
Songs of Jan Philip Schinhan, performed in 1999 by Grace Johnson, soprano, and Andrew Mock, piano. The disc includes
a selection of Schinhan's songs in English and German.

Letters, a speech, biographical material, lyric material, music, a photograph, and
other material relating to Schinhan. Correspondence relates chiefly to Schinhan's
music; however, there is one personal letter to Schinhan from his brother (written
in German), 1897. Musical items consist chiefly of autograph presentation copies of
music to Schinhan from various composers. Music compositions are also included in
the folder entitled Bohemian Club. Schinhan was a member of this San Francisco club
and apparently wrote a few musical compositions for its 1923 meeting.

The miscellaneous material includes a photographed copy of a charcoal sketch of Schinhan,
circa 1960s, an evaluation of JPS's dissertation, and an award certificate for the
North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award, 1970.